Filler-form.



L. DAY.

FILLER FORM.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 1914,

1,1 17,964, Patented Nov. 17,1914.

WITNESSES IIVVENTOR THE NORRIS PETERS co., PHOTO-L1 n10 wasnlhmrmv. v c

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD DAY. OF NEl/V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 'IO INITIAL COMPANY, A CORPO- RATION OF VIRGINIA.

FILLER-FORM.

Application filed .Tune 26, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEONARD DAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, county, city, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filler- Forms, set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to filler-forms for embroidery.

The object of the invention is to render a filler-form for embroidery strong and little subject to breakage in shipment or when on display in a store or when being handled at any time before it is actually applied to the fabric about to be embroidered.

Filler forms to which the invention applies are customarily made of some cheap and more or less fragile material in sheet-form, from which the filler-forms are stamped or cut out. One suitable form of material is compressed cellulose or wood-pulp or the same strengthened by one or more layers of fabric. Fillerforms for embroidery cmbody many and varied designs such as initial letters, monograms, scallops, flowers and the like.

In carrying out the general object of the invention the frailer and more independently attenuated parts of the design embodied by the filler-form are strengthened by staying the sam to the more rigid parts of the body in an improved and novel manner, no claim being made to there being invention in merely staying one member of a filler-form to another member of a fillerform. Especially in connection with complicated designs, but frequently in connection with simple designs a staying strip connecting one member to another may inadvertently be considered as an. intentional part of the embroidery design, whereas in reality it is but a mechanical staying member which should be removed before applying the embroidery threads. The localized application to such form of staying meni ber of a distinguishing mark, symbol, circle or color might be resorted to, to the end that the same might more readily be distinguished from the intentional members of the filler-form completing the desired design. However, unless such symbols or marks were self-explanatory or were combined with cumbersome reading matter con- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 847,394.

fusion and mistakes would still occur. Again the mere provision of a narrow staying strip does not meet the necessary requirements to withstand the ordinary stress to which it is subjected by ordinary handling of the filler-form. The solution of the problem as contemplated within the scope of the present invention, however, is a combination of two functions within a single part termed a spanner. One otherwise inadequately supported member of a filler-form is stayed to another member of the filler-form by a spanner which is stamped out of the sheet of fabric and by the same die which cuts the design of the filler-form in question, but is given such a shape as to vary approximately proportionally from end to end in its relative lateral dimensions the local stresses to which it is liable to be subjected in the handling of the filler-form and at the same time such a configuration throughout its entire extent that it appears ungainly and contrasts in its general configuration with the configuration of the member forming the design proper.

The above will be pointed out more particularly in the following claims which should be read in connection with the illustrated embodiments of the invention described in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application in which like characters designate corresponding parts and in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a filler-form embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through line 22 of Fig. 1 showing the integral construction; and Fig. 3 is a plan view similar to that of Fig. 1, but showing a modified configuration.

In Fig. l a filler-form embodying intentionally the design of the letter Y is illustrated. The two upright members 1 and 2 so far as the design proper is concerned, are interconnected solely by the rather slender member 3, which might readily be broken even by careful handling, unless the member l were additionally stayed to the member 2. Likewise the tail of the Y or member 4 might readily be broken oif from the member 2, unless it had additional strengthening means. As is obvious from an inspection of Fig. 1, the design proper for the initial Y is made up of straight lines.

One of the most common causes of stress in a spanner between the members 1 and 2 is some action which tends to push the member 1 toward the member 2. Usually the filler-forms are applied to a flat surface and in consequence the tendency of the member 1 to approach the member 2 would tend to buckle the spanner interconnecting the same.

This buckling stress increases substantially proportionally to the distance from one of the members 1 or 2 toward the central point between the two. The spanner 5 is formed with slender easily breakable tips 6 and 7, which are formed integrally respectively with the members 1 and 2 but the spanner abruptly increases in width from its ends at these tips toward the center where it is bellied out into an ungainly size and configuration. The boundary lines of this spanner 5 are convex curves, which contrast decidedly with the straight line configuration of the design of the body of the fillerform. In like manner the tail 1 of the fillerform is stayed by a similarly formed spannor 8 having one tip 6 formed integral with the tail 4 and another tip 7 formed integral with the member 11. In the cross-section of Fig. 2, a depression incidental to the stamping die at the locality of the tips 6 and 7 is shown which is a material advantage to the structure. These indentations make the intentional manual removal of the spanner very easy by merely giving them a sharp twitch to cause an abrupt bend at the locality of a tip.. There is sufficient flexibility in the fabric of the filler-f0r1n to cause a suflicient permanence in the attachment of the spanners for the purposes of staying.

In Fig. 3 a modified spanner is shown to contrast with the general curved design of the filler-form 13. In this filler-form the tail 14 requires staying so that the tips 6 and 7 are attached respectively to the end of the tail 14 and to the bottom of the member 15. The spanner-12 embodies a substantial diamond shape, the essentials of which are straight lines to contrast with the curves of the intentional part of the design of the filler-form, whereas the proportioning of lateral dimensions to the local stresses is still adhered to in the shape of the. spanner 12.

What is claimed and what is desired to be secured by United Stateslietters Patent is:

1. A washable filler-form embodying an embroidery design adapted to be completely covered by embroidery threads comprising, members of various configurations eXtend-. ing in various directions and completing an integral body of frail sheet fabric and having integral readily detachable means for staying one member to another member consisting of a spanner formed of the said integral fabric and having small frangible tips at its ends fast with said members and being abruptly and materially widened from and between said ends to form an ungainly bellied bar roughly'proportional in its lateral configuration to the local stresses to which it is liable to be subject in the handling of said filler-form and being. readily adapted and intended for removal obviously from its appearance before the application of the embroidery threads.

2. A washable filler-form embodying an embroidery design adapted to be completely covered by embroidery threads comprising, members of various configurations extending in various directions and completing an integral body of frail sheet fabric and having integral readily detachable means for staying one member to another member consisting of a spanner formed of the said integral fabric and having small frangible tips at its ends fast with said members and being abruptly and materially widened from and between said ends to form an ungainly bellied bar roughly proportional in its lateral configuration to the local stresses to which it is liable to be'subject in the handling of said filler-form and being readily adapted and intended for removal obviously from its appearance before the application of the embroidery threads, the lateral configuration of said spanner being of curved lines when the general configuration of said filler-form is made up of straight lines and vice versa.

In witness whereof, I have signed my name to'this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. LEONARD DAY.

Witnesses:

L. ALTMAN, WALTON HAnRIsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. C. 

